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(Trying this LazyWeb thing.) So forget about GPRS, 3G, MP3 players integrated into your phone, streaming audio, blah blah blah. I want to "stream" audio right over the voice channel (because hey, it does audio, right?): I want to be able to call my underutilized landline at home (mainly there because DSL requires it), have my Mac pick up, play an answering machine message, but if I punch in the correct code, it fires up RealPlayer or iTunes, and tunes in my favorite streaming radio station and pipes the output into the phone. Jerry-rig an adapter between my cell phone's headset jack (which has plenty of underutilized local minutes) and the cassette adapter for my car stereo, and voila -- instant "streaming audio" in my car, or well, anywhere I take my cell phone. (Phase 2.0 features -- touch-tone control of iTunes that would let you skip/rewind tracks, choose playlists. :-) Found some potential pieces: a voice modem, VOCP, which uses Vgetty. What sucks is there doesn't appear to be a way to pipe audio straight into the modem. It needs to be converted to PVF (portable voice format), then RMD (raw modem format). This might require some hardware hacking of an old touch tone phone I've got. And yeah, if there's a commercial solution for Windows, I'm interested if only to hack on it for ideas. |
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